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Direct linkZimmerman, Belinda S.; Rasinski, Timothy V.; Was, Christopher A.; Rawson, Katherine A.; Dunlosky, John; Kruse, Sharon D.; Nikbakht, Elham – Reading Psychology, 2019
This study investigated the efficacy of the Fluency Development Lesson (FDL) in improving reading achievement in primary grade struggling readers. 30 readers, enrolled in a summer reading clinic, participated in daily 40-min mini-reading lessons across 5 weeks. During the fluency lessons, readers practiced and developed their literacy skills…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Kontovourki, Stavroula – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
This article highlights the complexity of becoming a reader in public school classrooms, by describing the ways students' reading bodies constituted the sites and discursive means for the performance of diverse reader identities. Drawing on sociocultural literacy and post-structural performance theories to suggest the notion of embodied…
Descriptors: Poetry, Learning Theories, Reading, Ethnography
Download full textNeumann, Veda S.; Ross, Dorothy K.; Slaboch, Anita F. – Online Submission, 2008
The authors of this action research project report implemented oral reading fluency-based interventions for the purpose of improving students' reading comprehension. Six students in grade three, six students in grade five and six students in grade six participated in the study from Monday, August 27 through Friday, December 7, 2007. Researchers…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Student Surveys, Cooperative Learning
Building Fluency, Word-Recognition Ability, and Confidence in Struggling Readers: The Poetry Academy
Wilfong, Lori G. – Reading Teacher, 2008
The purpose of this article is to describe a strategy called the Poetry Academy used to boost reading skills in elementary school students. The Poetry Academy paired struggling readers with a community volunteer to read poetry on a weekly schedule to practice fluency, work on word recognition abilities, and build confidence. A research study took…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Word Recognition, Reading Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
